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From The Founder
Leo, founder of MarketMinder
Leo
Founder · MarketMinder
About The Founder

Hi, I'm Leo.

I'm a full-time trader, not a marketer. I trade NQ, ES, GC, and the major forex pairs live — real entries, real management, real exits. Over time I put $30K into evaluations, courses, and screen time, and eventually turned that into $150K+ in verified prop firm payouts across multiple firms. That $30K wasn't a bet. It was tuition. The payouts were the proof the system works.

I wasn't gifted, and I wasn't early. I lost accounts, chased signals, and mistook activity for progress — for years. What finally changed things wasn't a better indicator. It was building a system I could actually measure, so I stopped guessing and started understanding why a trade worked or didn't.

You don't lack motivation. You lack a system that tells you the truth about your own trading. Trading is supposed to be hard — so instead of figuring it out alone, the way I had to, you can start with the exact tools and framework I built for myself.

This is the system I wish someone had handed me. I can't promise you'll never lose again — no honest person can. What I can promise is that you'll stop flying blind, and start seeing exactly what's keeping you stuck.

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$150K+ Total Prop Firm Payouts
Verified across multiple firms
$30K Spent On Evaluations
The real cost of getting here
5x Return On Capital Deployed
Payouts vs. spend, to date
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Firms & Brokers Funded With
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Funded across multiple prop firms
Trading NQ, ES, GC & major forex pairs live
9-chapter proprietary system, fully filmed
Built & taught by a working trader, not a marketer
The Why

Trading was never meant to be done alone. So we built a place to belong.

Here's what nobody tells you. The hardest part of trading isn't the charts. It's the silence. You sit alone. You lose alone. You call the blown account bad luck, the breached rule the firm's fault — because there's no one there who understands, no one to tell you the truth.

So we built something different. Not another signal group. Not another guru with a Lambo. A community. A place where traders who've walked the exact path you're on actually belong — where you're surrounded by people who get it, who hold you to the standard, who remind you you're not the only one who's been here. For a lot of traders, it's the first time this ever stopped feeling lonely.

Because a trader with a system is dangerous. But a trader with a system and people around them? That's someone who lasts. That's the whole idea. Not to sell you a shortcut — to give you the mechanics and the belonging you needed all along. If you've ever traded alone and wondered what you were missing, it was this.

— @LEOTYD, FOUNDER OF MARKETMINDER
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Systems, not signals

Every rule taught is one you can explain back — not one you copy blind.

02

A better life through scaling

Trading is the vehicle. Scaling is how you actually get somewhere with it — one account, then two, then a real track record, not one lucky month. The traders who last are the ones playing the long game: compounding size slowly, protecting capital first, and treating consistency as the metric that matters, not a single green day.

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Understand the mechanics

If you can't explain why a trade worked, it wasn't the system — it was luck.

The System

One system. Not a menu of shortcuts.

Foundations

The Blueprint

The groundwork every trader needs before touching a funded account — the rules that keep you in the game long enough to get good.

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The Edge

The Xdge

The full method behind every trade I take — market structure, entries, re-entries, and risk, built so you can run it yourself.

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What We Have For You

Everything built to aid your journey — not just teach you theory.

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Weekly Live Trading Sessions
Watch trades planned, executed, and managed in real market conditions — live, not edited after the fact. See the exact process in real time, so you can replicate it on your own account.
Live App Open Tally
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Trading Dashboard + Tools
Sharpen your edge with Tally — journal, review, and analyze every trade. Track performance, spot patterns, and refine your process so you keep improving instead of repeating the same mistakes.
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A Proven Mechanical System
Trade with confidence using a documented, repeatable method. Eliminate emotion and guesswork with clear rules for every entry, management decision, and exit — no more guessing mid-trade.
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A Community That Keeps You Accountable
Journal reviews, weekly livestreams, and a room full of traders working toward the same thing — a better life, built through discipline, not shortcuts.
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The Room

A capped community built around consistency, not signals.

Weekly livestreams, journal reviews, and trades broken down to show the reasoning — a place to keep you accountable to the system, not just cheer you on. The Room is exclusive to Blueprint, Xdge, and Summit students, because accountability only means something when everyone in the room has skin in the game.

Capped membership · Weekly livestreams · Journal review

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Start with the free tools that keep you inside the rules.

Calculators for your consistency rule and daily loss limits, a prop firm eval tracker, and Tally — all free to use before you ever spend a dollar.

Start Here

New to this? Good. Here’s the honest truth.

Everyone starts somewhere — I did too, and I got plenty wrong first. None of this needs experience. It just needs you to actually want to learn the craft, not chase a shortcut. Here’s who this fits.

This is for you if…
  • You want to understand why a trade works, so one day you can do it on your own
  • You're curious and coachable — happy to ask “why” and actually sit with the answer
  • You're willing to keep a journal and review your own trades, even the ugly ones
  • You're brand new and okay starting at the very beginning — no ego about it
  • You can show up for the NY session most days and put in the reps
Maybe not yet if…
  • You really just want signals — to be told what to buy without learning why
  • You're hoping for a guaranteed income number before you start
  • You need a fixed deadline — funded in 30 days, profitable by month three
  • You'd be trading money you can't afford to lose (please don't)
  • You're sure your strategy is already fine and the market is the problem
Straight Answers

The questions every beginner asks.

No jargon, no hype — just honest answers. If you're new and serious about learning, this is exactly the stuff you should know going in.

No — and I promise that’s good news for you.

Signals feel great at first: someone tells you what to buy, you copy it, done. But a year later you still can’t read a chart on your own, and the day the signals stop, so do you. You’d have spent all that time and learned nothing you can keep.

Instead, I teach you how it actually works — how to spot a setup, size your risk, and review your trades so you get better every week. It’s slower, yes. But at the end of it, the skill is yours, for life.

The goal: one day you don’t need me, or anyone, to trade with confidence.

Right here, with The Blueprint — and honestly, starting fresh can be an advantage. You’ve got no bad habits to unlearn.

It assumes zero knowledge: what a stop loss really does, how much to risk, how to read a chart without guessing. If you’ve never placed a single trade, this is exactly where you’re meant to begin. No question is too basic here.

The one thing I’ll gently push back on: don’t rush ahead to the advanced stuff before the basics are second nature. Build the foundation first and everything after it gets so much easier.

Your path: Blueprint first, take your time, then level up when you’re ready.

Genuinely — you’re my favourite kind of person to work with.

Here’s the thing almost nobody tells you: most people don’t fail because their strategy is broken. They fail on risk sizing, consistency rules, and nerves under pressure — the boring stuff that actually decides everything.

If you’ve blown a couple of accounts and you can even half-explain what went wrong, you’re ahead of most people who never dared to try. That experience isn’t wasted — it’s the raw material we build on.

You’ve stumbled, you want to understand why, and you’re ready to fix it for good. Perfect.

I won’t insult you with a number — and be careful of anyone who does.

Your results come down to your discipline, how you manage risk, the market you happen to be trading in, and whether you can follow a process even when it’s boring. No course on earth controls those things for you.

What I can promise is the skill set: a repeatable way to find setups, protect your capital, and learn from every trade. Master that, and the money becomes a byproduct of doing it well. That part is up to you — and that’s exactly how it should be.

Focus on becoming a good trader first. The payouts follow the skill, not the other way around.

Yes — that’s the beauty of prop firms. You trade their capital, not your life savings. You never need a big account of your own.

Just go in with clear eyes: challenge fees add up, and most people don’t pass on the first try (I certainly didn’t). So plan for a couple of attempts rather than betting everything on one.

And please — if a challenge fee would genuinely stress your rent or groceries, wait a little. Learn the craft first with the free tools and the Blueprint. Trading while scared of losing is the fastest way to lose.

Smart move: only risk challenge fees you’d be okay losing while you learn.

Honest answer: it depends on you, and that’s a good thing — it means it’s in your hands.

Some people pass in a month. Others take the better part of a year. The difference is almost never how quickly they learn the material — it’s how long it takes to stop breaking their own rules. That’s a discipline you build, and I’ll help you build it.

One kind warning: if you set a hard deadline, you’ll start forcing trades to hit it, and forcing trades is what blows accounts. Trust the process and the timing takes care of itself.

Aim to get good, not fast. Funding is a milestone on the way, not the finish line.

Less than a second job, more than a hobby. Plan for the NY session plus a bit of review time afterwards.

That review is where the real growth happens — looking back at what you did and why. It’s the habit that separates people who improve from people who just keep trading blind. Don’t skip it.

If you’re in Asia, be honest with yourself about the timezone — the NY session lands late in your evening. It’s doable (plenty of our traders do it), but showing up a few nights a week for months is a real commitment worth planning for.

Consistency beats intensity. A few focused sessions a week, done properly, is plenty.

I’d love to say yes, but I’d be lying. Trading is a skill, not a set-and-forget machine.

It asks for your attention during sessions, honest notes afterwards, and the patience to do nothing on days when there’s nothing worth doing. (Sitting on your hands is genuinely one of the hardest skills to learn — most beginners underestimate it.)

The upside: because it’s a real skill, once you’ve got it, nobody can take it away from you. That’s worth far more than passive.

Think of it as a craft you’re mastering, not a machine you’re switching on.

Depending on the tier: the foundations, the complete system, or live mentorship — plus the tools, including the journal, the drawdown and consistency calculators, and the setup grader.

The tools matter more than they sound. Most traders can't tell you their own numbers with any accuracy, which means they're guessing about their own performance. Fixing that is usually the first real improvement.

Only a few. This isn’t the place if you just want signals to copy, if you need a guaranteed payout, if you’d be risking money you can’t afford to lose, or if you need it all solved in 30 days.

But notice what’s not on that list: being new. Inexperience isn’t a problem here — it’s the whole reason the Blueprint exists. The only things that really hold people back are impatience and being unwilling to learn.

If you’re new but genuinely want to learn the craft, you’re exactly who I built this for.

Still not sure?

Just ask — no pressure, no pitch. Tell me where you’re at and what’s been tripping you up, and I’ll give you a straight answer on whether this is the right next step for you. If it’s not, I’ll tell you that too.

Ask Before You Buy